plural dories
: a flat-bottomed boat with high flaring sides, sharp bow, and deep V-shaped transom
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Everything was hunky dory when federal law enforcement was raiding Mar-a-Lago and President Joe Biden was getting a free pass?
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2025
Luckily, once the job is done, everything seems pretty hunky dory, as if there had never been any reckonings at all.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 23 May 2025
More boats were gathering: a center console with dual Yamahas, other canoes of varying sizes (including one painted to resemble a scaly serpent), some kayaks, a rowing dory, a couple of Hobie cats.
—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
Ride in a traditional wooden dory boat piloted by our trip leader, Kale Cimperman, who regales his passengers with tales of the early Idaho rafting guides – the subject of his master’s thesis.
—Eileen Ogintz, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2025
Luckily, once the job is done, everything seems pretty hunky dory, as if there had never been any reckonings at all.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 23 May 2025
More boats were gathering: a center console with dual Yamahas, other canoes of varying sizes (including one painted to resemble a scaly serpent), some kayaks, a rowing dory, a couple of Hobie cats.
—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
Ride in a traditional wooden dory boat piloted by our trip leader, Kale Cimperman, who regales his passengers with tales of the early Idaho rafting guides – the subject of his master’s thesis.
—Eileen Ogintz, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
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dory
noun
do·ry
ˈdōr-ē 
ˈdȯr-
plural dories
: a boat with a flat bottom, high sides that curve upward and outward, and a sharp bow
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